Nether Ray

Nether Rays are a family of Cunning pets in World of Warcraft. They are tamable by a Hunter starting at level 60.

Nether Rays, through use of their , instantly lashes an enemy, interrupting spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 2 sec--in a 20 yard range on a 40 second cooldown. This is useful in both PvP and PvE as a ranged interrupt.

There are five different skins available for nether ray pets. These are all found in Outlands and resemble the mounts sold by the Sha'tari Skyguard (such as Silver Riding Nether Ray).

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Comment by Toldry

For hunters who love having Vanity Pets that look similar to their pet, this is the pet you are looking for.

Comment by HOTempest

In WoTLK, these guys receive Nether Shock, a instant interrupt like Earth Shock. Possibly good for PvP?

Comment by eranikusnxt

that would be good for pvp, but I think that this guy is a nice simple guy that can silence for a bit with a 40 sec cooldown, looks like hes good for caster bosses in instances, like the final boss in MGT.

Comment by Chumonster

Only really good on healers the damage ones have a long cast but having to kill a guy longer is annoying and is a waste of time and energy,mana,rage,runic power

Comment by Groundlord

Does anyone know if the Interrupt effect from Nether Shock works on Raid bosses? If it does, Nether Rays might be useful for managing things like Kel'thuzad's single-target Frostbolt.

Comment by Kirkron

On a different note: Nether Rays are used by Shattera's eye in the sky. It makes me feel proud that on my hunter when i dismount my nether ray for combat: Surprise! That Nether Ray is now killing your enemy!

Comment by gogodude

they have weak attacks you know like bite is usally powerful

Comment by trendyusername

Awesome pet for @#$%ing people off in PvP. Sure, his silence doesn't really do all that much, but interrupting a cast can have pretty drastic effects, especially when you watch the warrior in front of you die from not getting the heals he needed, or getting your DK guildie mad when you win a duel against her because she's silenced.

But other than that, I'd rather have a bird of prey for the disarming, or a bat for the stun.

Comment by Kellson22

Hey, just to let you know, I am currently a BM hunter at level 69 now, and I dont know about you guys, but my cunning pets do way more dps than ferocity pets now due to the Wolverine Bite cunning pets can now get. In randoms with some buffs, (like kings on me and might on my pet) on a boss i can pull around 1400 dps, and normally around 52-59% of my dps is my pet. I tested out a couple of cunning pets, and the ones that seem to the most damage is the Nether Ray, and its strange because its CD on its ability is 28 seconds. Strangely enough my Sporebat is one of my highest DPS pets, then followed by the Chimaera and then my raptor (which is my backup pet if the boss does alot of damage to pets.)

So I guess since the change on Wolverine Bite, I see cunning pets the #1 on dps again, but ferocity not much behind.

Comment by FenrirTheHunter

Where is my little caster murder? There you are, there you are!

Comment by Kreshuk

Best PvP silencer combination ever, Blood Elf (Arcane torrent- interrupts and silences for 2 sec with a 2 minute cooldown) Marksman hunter(Silencing shot interrupts and silences for 3 sec with a 20 second cooldown) with Nether ray (Nether Shock interrupts and blocks school of casting for 3 sec with a 40 second cooldown) (A Gorilla has an identical ability) that is a total of 8 seconds silence/ interupt, that is plenty of time to get that kill.

*evil grin*

All caster classes tremble before the Power of Kreshuk! and his mighty Nether Ray "Duct Tape" and the Strength of his Amazing Gorilla "Kong"! Priests will fail, in my presence, Mages shall fall, Druids will freeze, Warlocks shall feel their own fears, Paladins shrivel, and Shamans all quake!

Comment by outzaidur

pet does not wait for boss to cast, it spams the interrupt. so it's useless on autocast.

Comment by codyx101

i don't see many people using these nowadays, for pvp its mostly spiders/monkeys and for pve i usually see wolfs

Comment by coyote72

Effective interrupt seeing as how the pet has multiple speed increasing abilities, not just Dive. The interrupt has a 20 yard range, so I suggest you keep this off the Auto-Cast if you're in most cases to choose when you use that 40 second cooldown.

Comment by moondreams

The Aether Rays are also tameable and have been since 4.0 but they aren't listed in the list of tameable nether rays or the gallery of skins. Not that it's important because hunters don't seem to use these often but just a heads up for anyone who likes the aether ray's gold skin like I do.

Comment by splarv

Looked like a mistype. NetherRaySkinBlue is looked like green, but NetherRaySkinGreen is looked like blue.

Comment by SpectraKitty

Ugly animals

Comment by milalyr

Attention new Hunters, or those out there leveling Hunter alts!

Since patch 6.0.2, this darling pet family has access to the Bloodlust/Heroism ability. You can access this pet on any spec of Hunteras early as level 46! (thanks to Blackbog the Fang)

You usually can't access this ability until level 69 for a Beast Mastery Hunter with exotic mastery taming a Core Hound. Shamans don't get it until 70.

I grabbed a nether ray on my level 59 alt, and its ability was there, so for now I can assume it'd be there at level 46 as well, since level 20 is when most pets get their special skills and buffs.

Go out and tame your own adorable little Gotta-Go-Fast machine levels and levels before you normally could!

Comment by Skullhawk13

These pets now can use bloodlust. This means that considering they are non-exotic, if you tame the rare in felwood, you can get the thirty percent haste buff for the 49 leveling bracket, twenty levels early.